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Police officer heard rib break while performing CPR on Sheku Bayoh

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A police officer has told an inquiry how he heard a rib break while performing CPR on a man who fell unconscious during his arrest.

Sheku Bayoh, 31, died on May 3, 2015, after he was detained by police in Kirkcaldy, Fife, and an inquiry into his death is being held in Edinburgh before Lord Bracadale.

Pc Craig Walker told the inquiry on Friday that during training he had been told it is possible to break a rib while properly carrying out CPR.He earlier recalled how he had shoulder-tackled Mr Bayoh and restrained him on the ground.Pc Walker, who the inquiry heard weighed 25 stone at the time of the incident, was one of the officers responding to 999 calls about Mr Bayoh carrying a knife and attacking vehicles in the town's Hayfield Road just after 7am.He said he saw Mr Bayoh carry out a "full force stamp" on another officer, Pc Nicole Short.Pc Walker said he and two other officers involved in restraining Mr Bayoh all realised he was unconscious at the same time.A statement from Pc Walker which was read out to the inquiry said he was the first officer to perform chest compressions on Mr Bayoh.He said: "I placed interlocked hands on the centre of the chest and started compressions in line with the training I've had."After two or three compressions I heard the sound of a rib breaking in the chest area."In my training I was told if you were doing it right, you might break a rib."Angela Grahame QC, the inquiry's senior counsel, asked Pc Walker how he felt when he and the other police officer involved in the arrest returned to their station.He said: "Concerned for the wellbeing of the gentleman."Obviously nobody wants to be involved in an incident like this."Concerned at the nature of the call, what we'd just been involved in

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